Before and After in British Columbia

Gardening brings peace through difficult times

Today we ’re visiting Kim Herman ’s garden .

My husband and I live on in Williams Lake , British Columbia , Canada . Our domain is one of extreme . We can have hot summer with drouth , cool winters , and cold-blooded springs . It is hard to say what zone we are in , as the climate is getting more irregular , but to be safe I would say it is a Zone 3 , but I do turn some Zone 5 works . We bought our house in 2012 . There was lawn , two badly plant sand cherries in a banner , a lilac , an awful untrue spiraea hedging , and some self - seeded chokecherry tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the front . We dug up the lawn and put in paths and beds .

The front early on on .

Thefront gardengrown in and full of flowers .

opinion from inside the front garden .

What was an empty space is now filled with flowers .

Tulipsbloom in abundance .

Planting lots and lots of tulips insure an blowup of color in spring .

The backyard was another basic lawn and had four huge lombardy poplar and a direful overgrown lilac hedge . A professional tree logger and crane were used for the poplar , and my married man , Michael , dug the lilac out with hard manual labor .

The backyard before and after . Every twelvemonth more lawn was removed and replaced with paths , veggie bottom , fruit Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , bush , and flowers .

The lawn was metamorphose into a rich and beautiful garden .

The last four years have been years of crisis . Wildfires in 2017 induce the metropolis to be evacuated . In 2018 the last of the lawn was removed , and it was the last of the major work by Michael . That yr also came with water damage to our house and Michael ’s diagnosis of a uncommon osseous tissue - marrow Crab . It was another year that horticulture was put on the back burner while we managed an almost rebuild of the theater and Michael ’s rapid decline . This yr brought Covid-19 , and Michael has been confront complications that had him hospitalized for three months off and on . Through all the stress and tribulations , the garden continued to grow and flower and land peace and felicity not only to us but to the many who take the air by and give their appreciation and compliments . In January , Michael was hospitalized . When given a poor prognosis , learn the garden bloom was his destination . Now that the diagnosing has improved , the garden is giving him a bit of his one-time liveliness back photographing the flowers , as he has many restrictions because of his compromised unsusceptibility and lessened body .

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